Collectible Literature – Sea Urchin Editions

Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fresh and lovely, yesterday

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a short story writer and novelist who is generally regarded as one of the leading representatives of American ‘Dark Romanticism’. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts and descended from a family of Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the earliest and largest New England colonies. His ancestor John Hathorne was a harsh and unrepentant…

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Johannes Baader – Fifi

Johannes Baader (1875-1955) grew up in Stuttgart and studied architecture in that town from 1898 to 1899. After having met Raoul Hausmann, Baader moved to Berlin in 1905, where Hausmann introduced him to a circle of artists that would germinate into Berlin Dada some ten years later…

Alexander Trocchi – Cain’s Book

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…

Alexander Trocchi – Young Adam (1983 reprint)

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. Young Adam, although spiced up with erotic scenes at the request of Girodias, is…

Alexander Trocchi – White Thighs (1992 reprint)

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi ran the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. After Merlin had come to an end he got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. White Thighs is one of those pornographic novels. The book was published under the pseudonym Frances Lengel in 1955…

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